Material strategies
Subtitle: dress and gender in historical perspective
By: edited by Barbara Burman and Carole Turbin.
Contributors: Burman, Barbara.; Turbin, Carole.
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, MA; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Sex role -- History; Clothing and dress -- Sex differences; Clothing and dress -- History
Table of contents: title: Material strategies engendered; title: Fashion, time and the consumption of a Renaissance man in Germany: the costume book of Matthaus Schwarz of Augsburg, 1496-1564; title: Reflections on gender and status distinctions: an analysis of the liturgical textiles recorded in mid-sixteenth-century London; title: Following suit: men, masculinity and gendered practices in the clothing trade in Leeds, England, 1890-1940; title: Pocketing the difference: gender and pockets in nineteenth-century Britain; title: Fashioning the American man: the Arrow collar man, 1907-1931; title: Erotic modesty: (ad)dressing female sexuality and propriety in open and closed drawers, USA, 1800-1930; title: 'De-humanised females and Amazonians': British wartime fashion and its representation in Home chat, 1914-1918; title: Fashion, the politics of style and national identity in pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy; title: Style and subversion: postwar poses and the neo-Edwardian suit in mid-twentieth-century Britain; title: 'Anti-mini militants meet modern misses': urban style, gender and the politics of 'national culture' in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; title: Dressing for leadership in China: wives and husbands in an age of revolutions (1911-1976).